portage
Speech parts
1. portage - Noun
2. portage - Verb
4. Portage - Proper noun
Meaning
A sailor's wages when in port.
The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
The act of carrying or transporting.
The price of carriage; porterage.
Capacity for carrying; tonnage.
A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.
To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
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At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.
As CTV reported Wednesday, Starlight Investments wants to build a 10,000 square foot community hub in Portage Place.
A well-established trail crossed the neck of land behind the headland in pre-historic and historic times, traversed by sleds in the winter and used as a portage in the summer to avoid traversing the strait.
Along Portage Lake is the Raymond Kestner Waterfront Recreation Area, the principal feature of which is a large " Chutes and Ladders " playground ; it also includes Houghton Beach.
• $50,000 for 10 metal "neighborhood celebration signs" in each of the five neighborhoods touched by the ward: Portage Park, Montclare, Dunning, Belmont-Cragin and Hermosa.
• Earls Polo Park at 1455 Portage Ave. in Winnipeg on September 25 from 10 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.